The gas corridor sanctions forgot: Tehran’s quiet expansion into Turkey

While everyone focuses on tankers transferring the Iranian oil, a massive financial valve remains open to Tehran on NATO’s eastern border. On paper, Iran is entering its most restrictive sanctions environment since 2012. United Nations snapback has reactivated global measures on Iran’s energy trade, but Western enforcement remains partial. And Iran continues to sell crude oil to China. Yet one of Tehran’s most strategically important export routes, the Tabriz–Ankara gas corridor, has expanded rather than contracted.

Le modus operandi juif

Le modus operandi juif : Diversité orchestrée : Importer systématiquement une population « diverse » dans des nations historiquement blanches grâce à un système politique et organisationnel sophistiqué et bien financé…

ICC sentences Sudan Janjaweed leader Ali Kushayb to 20 years for Darfur atrocities

The International Criminal Court (ICC) has sentenced former Janjaweed commander Ali Muhammad Ali Abdelrahman, known as ‘Ali Kushayb’ and feared in Darfur as the “Colonel of Colonels” to 20 years in prison for war crimes and crimes against humanity committed in 2003–2004. The sentence, handed down on today in The Hague, follows his October conviction on 27 counts, including murder, torture, persecution, rape, and the forcible displacement of civilians.

Marwan Barghouti brutally assaulted ‘seven times’ in Israeli prisons since Gaza war

Palestinian prisoner Marwan Barghouti has been assaulted seven times in Israeli prisons since the start of the Gaza war, according to prisoner rights groups.

Senior Palestinian Fatah leader and longtime prisoner Marwan Barghouti has been subjected to seven “brutal assaults” inside Israeli prisons since the start of Israel’s genocidal war in Gaza two years ago, according to Palestinian prisoners’ rights organisations.

Getting to Phase 2 in Gaza: Red Lines and Recommendations

Washington Institute experts and former officials lay out the urgent need for clarity on vital questions related to U.S. oversight, the stalled International Stabilization Force, Israel’s red lines, Hamas opposition to multilateral proposals, the contours of the PA’s role, and more.

Africa Overview: December 2025

ISCAP’s collaboration with allies deepened in the DRC, Ethiopia launched its first airstrike against the Tigray Defence Forces since the Pretoria agreement, and violence surged in the Tombouctou region of Mali.

Democratic Republic of Congo: ISCAP’s collaboration with allied armed groups deepens

Bulgaria: Rebellious Generation

On December 12, 2025, Prime Minister of Bulgaria Rosen Zhelyazkov resigned after protesters took to the streets in cities across the country and filled the centre of the capital Sofia in the night of December 11. Between 50,000 and 100,000 people turned out in Sofia’s central Triangle of Power and Independence Square, calling for the Government to go. The words “Resignation” and “Mafia Out” were projected onto the Parliament building. Protesters accused Rosen Zhelyazkov’s Government, led by the centre-right GERB [an acronym for Citizens for European Development of Bulgaria] party, in power since January 2025, of widespread corruption. The Government had already scrapped a controversial budget plan for next year, in response to demonstrations the previous week.